Kelly Osbourne's debut, Shut Up — later retitled Changes upon its 2003 reissue — arrived in 2002 in the thick of punk-pop's popularity in the early 2000s and it reflected the sound of the times. Three years later, Osbourne returned with her follow-up, Sleeping in the Nothing, and it sounded nothing like Shut Up/Changes, but like that debut, it reflected its times: it spurned punk revival for new wave revival. So, as the pop culture of the new millennium lives a quarter century in the past, Osbourne rides the wave, drafting L.A.'s favorite collaborator of the last five years, Ms. Linda Perry — who struck it big with Pink, Xtina Aguilera, and Gwen Stefani, not so big with Courtney Love, Lisa Marie Presley, and Fischerspooner — as writer, producer, chief collaborator, and overall musical director.

"I'm going for something like very 'Alphaville,' " Osbourne told MTV News last month when she was dreaming up the concept...."Very '60s, nothing that I thought I'd ever do, like very black-and-white. I'm excited for that. And I'm going to wear a wig!"

To flesh out her idea, Osbourne enlisted director Chris Applebaum to emulate "Alphaville," Jean-Luc Godard's classic 1965 avant-garde film. Their take, which shot this past weekend, was filmed in black-and-white 35 mm, while Osbourne herself embodied the look of the film's star, Anna Karina, with sharp bangs and porcelain skin.

Kelly Osbourne's debut, Shut Up — later retitled Changes upon its 2003 reissue — arrived in 2002 in the thick of punk-pop's popularity in the early 2000s and it reflected the sound of the times. Three years later, Osbourne returned with her follow-up, Sleeping in the Nothing, and it sounded nothing like Shut Up/Changes, but like that debut, it reflected its times: it spurned punk revival for new wave revival. So, as the pop culture of the new millennium lives a quarter century in the past, Osbourne rides the wave, drafting L.A.'s favorite collaborator of the last five years, Ms. Linda Perry — who struck it big with Pink, Xtina Aguilera, and Gwen Stefani, not so big with Courtney Love, Lisa Marie Presley, and Fischerspooner — as writer, producer, chief collaborator, and overall musical director.

"I'm going for something like very 'Alphaville,' " Osbourne told MTV News last month when she was dreaming up the concept...."Very '60s, nothing that I thought I'd ever do, like very black-and-white. I'm excited for that. And I'm going to wear a wig!"

To flesh out her idea, Osbourne enlisted director Chris Applebaum to emulate "Alphaville," Jean-Luc Godard's classic 1965 avant-garde film. Their take, which shot this past weekend, was filmed in black-and-white 35 mm, while Osbourne herself embodied the look of the film's star, Anna Karina, with sharp bangs and porcelain skin.